The 70 kilo single person plane
(PhysOrg.com) -- Aki Suokas, a Finnish aeronautical engineer, has just finished creating a unique single-seat aircraft this week. The project was completed at Aero Friedrichshafen, and it has been dubbed the FlyNano.
News tagged with carbon fiber
Puffin: the one-person electric aircraft (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA engineers have designed an extremely quiet one-person electrically powered aircraft that can hover like a helicopter and fly like a plane. The “Puffin” launches from an upright position with the ...
Ordinary T-shirts could become body armor
(PhysOrg.com) -- A simple cotton T-shirt may one day be converted into tougher, more comfortable body armor for soldiers or police officers.
Nanomaterials
Apr 7, 2010
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A 'bridge' of carbon between nerve tissues
A new material made of carbon nanotubes supports the growth of nerve fibers, bridging segregated neural explants and providing a functional re-connection. The study, which was coordinated by SISSA in Trieste, also observed ...
Bio & Medicine
Jul 15, 2016
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New technique leads to creation of elastic high-strength carbon nanotube film
(Phys.org)—A new technique developed by researchers at East China University of Science and Technology and Shanghai Jiao Tong University has led to the development of a high-strength carbon nanotube film that retains much ...
Q&A: Physicist explains how Titan's 'catastrophic implosion' might have happened—and what it meant for those on board
The submersible Titan that had garnered much of the world's attention for the past week experienced a "catastrophic implosion," according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The tragic result, authorities said, is that the five occupants ...
General Physics
Jun 26, 2023
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The Velkess Flywheel: A more flexible energy storage technology
(Phys.org) —A new Kickstarter project called Velkess (Very Large Kinetic Energy Storage System) has recently gotten underway to bring an inexpensive flywheel to market. The project is headed by Bill Gray, who has taken ...
Scientists make strong, super-tough carbon sheets at low temperature
An international research team led by scientists at Beihang University in China and The University of Texas at Dallas has developed high-strength, super-tough sheets of carbon that can be inexpensively fabricated at low temperatures.
Nanomaterials
May 7, 2018
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New nanotube fibers have unmatched combination of strength, conductivity, flexibility (w/ video)
(Phys.org)—Rice University's latest nanotechnology breakthrough was more than 10 years in the making, but it still came with a shock. Scientists from Rice, the Dutch firm Teijin Aramid, the U.S. Air Force and Israel's Technion ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 10, 2013
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Strong carbon fiber artificial muscles can lift 12,600 times their own weight
The pull-up, an exercise dreaded by most, answers a basic question: are your muscles strong enough to lift your own body weight?
Materials Science
Apr 17, 2018
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